[OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one to use?

[Cartinus]

On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:25:22 Pieren wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > According to the wiki, associatedStreet only allows one occurrence of
> > the street role,
>
> Which is the main difference with the proposal 'street'. But this can be
> changed.

We've had about this same discussion on the Dutch forum not too long ago.

There was a nation wide building import. The JOSM terracer-plugin is now used 
to add adresses to these. So there are a lot of associatedStreet relations 
created. The plugin allows you to put more than one way into an 
associatedStreet relation.

Our conclusion was also that the requirement of only one way in an 
associatedStreet relation is not practically maintainable. If someone splits 
a way that just happens to be part of an associatedStreet relation, then he 
isn't going to move one part of the way and some of the adresses to a new 
relation, if he is just adding speed limits or routes or ....

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus